[244] An error for Waterford. It is explained by, and confirms, the suggestion that Malchus transferred the see to Lismore. [245] Throughout the _Life_, _Scotia_ is used, in its later sense, for the country now called Scotland; and here the Scots are evidently its inhabitants. But traces of earlier usage remain in § 14, "a Scotic (_i.e._ Irish) work," § 61 "We are Scots," and § 72 where Ireland is called "further Scotland" (_ulterior Scotia_). [246] Cellach. Note Imar's share in the matter, and cp. p. 11, n. 1. [247] Malachy must have been the archbishop's vicar for a considerable time if the account of his labours in that capacity (§ 7) is not grossly exaggerated. Hence, if his vicariate began in 1119 or 1120 his departure for Lismore can hardly have been earlier than 1121; and as he spent "some years" there before he was raised to the episcopate (1124; see § 16), it cannot have been later. Samuel O'Hanley, bishop of Dublin, died on July 4, 1121, and Cellach at once made an attempt, which proved unsuccessful, to take possession of the vacant see. Samuel's successor, Gregory, was duly elected, and was consecrated at Lambeth on October 2. (_O.C.C._ p. 31; _A.U._ 1121; John of Worcester, ed. J. H. R. Weaver, 1908, p. 16; Ussher, 532). It may have been in August or September, on the return of Cellach from Dublin, that Malachy was released from his office and went to Lismore. [248] Job xii. 12. [249] I read _rex australis Mumoniae_, for _rex Mumoniae_ in the printed text, restoring the word _australis_ from two of de Backer's MSS. The king is said in § 18 to have been Cormac, _i.e._ Cormac Mac Carthy, son of Teague Mac Carthy, who succeeded his father as king of Desmond (South Munster) in 1124. He was never king of the whole of Munster. That he went to Lismore in 1121 is very probable. For the Annals tell us that in that year Turlough O'Conor, king of Connaught, invaded Desmond, and "arrived at the termon of Lismore" (_A.I._ say that he destroyed Lismore, which can hardly be true). What more likely than that one of the sons of Teague, the reigning monarch of Desmond, should fly before that formidable warrior to the sanctuary of Mochuta? But St. Bernard errs in supposing that he was then king of Desmond. On Cormac, see also p. 43, n. 5. [250] Donough Mac Carthy. See next note. There is a brief notice of him in Tundale, p. 42.